Yes
73% (499)

No
27% (184)

683 total votes.

“Continued and reasonable education is a small investment when compared to the increased value it provides to the $9 billion fund and our members,” officials wrote in the Feb. 27 letter, also published in U-T San Diego.

Joe Nation, a professor of the practice of public policy at Stanford University, who researches public employee pensions, said traveling to Hawaii does not send the right message and praised the trustees who pulled out of the conference.

“It’s better for everyone because it looked like a junket to me,” Nation said. “The point is for them to manage money and to run a system for retirees. If someone really wants to travel, they should be a flight attendant.”